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Correction to correction

May 12, 2008 – 8:00 am

In the May 6 “Medical Examiner,” Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer correctly stated that the radio show The Infinite Mind runs on NPR. Slate, however, posted a correction stating that this fact was wrong. We now understand from NPR’s ombudsman, Alicia Shepherd, that NPR has a contractual relationship with The Infinite Mind to run the [...]

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Vag, not fag

April 14, 2008 – 8:00 am

In an April 8 “DVD Extras,” Mark Harris noted that in addition to being racist and sexist, gangster movies of the 1930s were also homophobic. Harris cited as evidence a line from the James Cagney picture Lady Killer, in which cops threaten Cagney by saying, “We’ll run you in as a fag, and that’ll mean [...]

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Shafer finds another example of plagiarism by Times reporter

March 5, 2008 – 10:45 pm

Last week, Slate’s Jack Shafer revealed that Times reporter Alexei Barrionuevo had plagiarized part of an article about cheap cocaine in Argentina. (Regret report here.) In response, the Times published an Editors’ Note but declined to detail the action it would take in response to the revelation. I wondered if this meant the Times would [...]

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Know your fabulists

February 25, 2008 – 8:00 am

In the Feb. 14 “Movies,” Dana Stevens originally and incorrectly identified Stephen Glass as a plagiarist. The former journalist fabricated stories; he did not copy the work of others. Link

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Downgraded to a theory

February 18, 2008 – 8:00 am

In the Feb. 13 “Human Nature,” William Saletan said that research in mice indicated that the embryoblast-trophoblast distinction began at the two-cell stage. As evidence, the article linked to a 2006 paper in Science. That paper has since been retracted due to “falsified or fabricated images” by one co-author. However, according to subsequent communication with [...]

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Fuzzy numbers etc.

February 3, 2008 – 8:00 am

In the Jan. 29 “Other Magazines,” Noreen Malone incorrectly stated that the total amount spent on the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts was $5 billion. The actual figure is $500 billion. Link

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Fuzzy numbers etc.

January 21, 2008 – 8:00 am

In a Jan. 11 “Trailhead” entry, Christopher Beam incorrectly referred to Hillary Clinton’s economic stimulus package as a $70 program. It would cost $70 billion. Link

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Shotguns are hilarious

November 26, 2007 – 8:00 am

In the Nov. 18 “Jurisprudence,” Dahlia Lithwick misfired on a joke, writing “most school kids probably think the sawed-off shotguns at issue in Heller are adorable.” The sentence should have read, “most school kids probably think the sawed-off shotguns at issue in Miller are adorable.” Link
Note: The second use of the word “probably” was originally [...]

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Attention journalists everywhere: James Dobson is not a minister

May 19, 2006 – 8:01 am

Our obsessive cataloging of corrections occasionally enables us to spot a pattern. Whether it’s the failure of newspapers to identify someone they initially misidentified in a photo, or the inability of newspapers to accurately report on, well, newspapers, we sometimes feel as though we’re listening to a broken record. Such was the case when we [...]

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